Improved trace-hook



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

VILLIAM H. MORGAN, OF ALLIANCE, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF AND RICHARD B. GEYER, OF ALLEGHENY, PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPROVED TRACE-HOOK.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent N0. 107,085, dated September 6, 1R70.

To all lwhom t may concern.- which form the trace of the harness. D rep- Be it known that I, VILLIAM H. MORGAN, resents projections, which are cast on the part of Alliance, in the county of Stark and State' B, and are used for the purpose of riveting it ot' Ohio, have invented a new and useful Imto the trace. provement in Trace-Hook; and I do hereby By constructing the trace-hook in the mandeclare that the following is a full, clear, and ner hereinbefore described, it can be both rivexact description thereof, reference heilig had eted and screwed in and to the harness-trace to the accompanying drawing, and to the letin such manner that the leather of the trace is ters of reference marked thereon. made to hug to and embrace the part B, so as The nature of my invention consists in a to obtain a perfect attachment of the parts, new article of manufacture-viz., a trace-hook, securin g strength and durability and ease and constructed as hereinafter described. facility in making the attachment of the trace- To enable others skilled in the art to make hook to the trace, with a saving of labor and and use my invention and new article of manat diminished cost. ufaeture, I will proceed to describe more fully Having thus described the nature, construcits construction. tion, and advantages of my new article of man- In the accompanying drawing, which forms ufacture, what I claim as of my invention isfpart of my specification, Figure l is an edge The trace-hook, when the part B is provided or top viewof the trace-hook. Fig. 2is a side with rivets D on both sides of it, and with view ofthe same. openings C C, the whole constructed and a1- In the accompanying drawing, Arepresents ranged as herein described, and for the purt-he hook. B represents that portion which is pose set forth.

secured to or in the end of the liarnesstrace. XV. Il. MORGAN. C are openings in the part B, and are made in Vitnesses:

it for the purpose of allowing' the part B to be JAMES J. JOHNSTON,

sewed in between the two' strips of leather A. G. JOHNSTON. 

